Este trabalho objetivou verificar se há a passagem, como herança cultural, do saber sobre as plantas medicinais de geração para nas comunidades rurais, os moradores das semiárido nordestino já tinham algum conhecimento propriedades jucá (C. ferrea), e se, baseando-se nesse prévio eles aceitariam usar essa planta desinfetante natural. Para tal foi realizada entrevistas em 388 residências, onde c...

Caesalpinia sappan (C. sappan) is a medicinal plant used for promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. During a screening procedure on medicinal plants, the ethylacetate extract of the lignum of C. sappan (CLE) showed inhibitory activity on arginase which has recently been reported as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. CLE inh...

Nineteen plants from Fabaceae family, which were used in Thai traditional medicine for treatment of diabetes, were determined of α-glucosidase inhibitory activity via enzymatic reaction. In this reaction, α-glucosidase was used as enzyme, which, reacted with the substrate, p-nitrophenol-D-glucopyranoside (pNPG). After that the product, p-nitro phenol (pNP) will be occurred and observed the yell...

Caesalpinia Crista of family Fabaceae is a moderately size deciduous tree, growing wild throughout the deciduous forest of India. It is popular in indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. In the traditional system of medicine various plant parts such as leaves, stem, root, seed and oils are used as anthelmentic, febrifugal, periodic, tonic, and vesicant. They ...